The Ultimate Spanish Verb Review and Practice
The Ultimate Spanish Verb Review and Practice offers you an exciting new way to gain the confidence and skills you need to take the next big step on the road to Spanish fluency.\ You'll quickly build your mastery of the Spanish sentence-from simple subject-plus-verb sentences, to more sophisticated ones, including conditional and compound sentences. By comparing and contrasting Spanish and English verb tenses and sentence structures, you'll learn how to express yourself correctly and with...
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Master the essential building blocks of Spanish-language fluency with facilidadThe Ultimate Spanish Verb Review and Practice offers you an exciting new way to gain the confidence and skills you need to take the next big step on the road to Spanish fluency. More than just another Spanish verb guide, it provides you with a concise review of verb forms and extensive practice in tense usage. You are then encouraged to apply your knowledge of verb forms to sentence construction.As you work through a series of increasingly more demanding exercises, you'll quickly build your mastery of the Spanish sentence—from simple subject-plus-verb sentences, to more sophisticated ones, including conditional and compound sentences. Also, by continually comparing and contrasting Spanish and English verb tenses and sentence structures, the authors further demystify the conventions of Spanish sentence construction.The ideal resource for experienced beginners through advanced learners of Spanish, The Ultimate Spanish Verb Review and Practice gives you: Numerous examples of how Spanish verbs and sentence structures work in everyday language Exercises in a variety of formats, including sentence completion, sentence building, dialogue writing, translation, verb-form replacement, and more Hundreds of verbs listed in both structural and semantic groupings Up-to-the-minute coverage of contemporary Spanish, including computer and technology verbs Dozens of clear, concise, at-a-glance charts and tables Ronni L. Gordon, Ph.D., is an education consultant specializing in curriculum development in foreign languages, literature, and history. David M. Stillman, Ph.D., teaches Spanish, French, Italian, and Hebrew at The College of New Jersey.
PrefaceviiIntroductionix1The Present Tense of Regular Verbs1Building SentencesSubject + verb, subject + verb + direct object16Negative sentences232Stem-changing Verbs; Special Verbs Ending in -iar and -uar28Building SentencesVerb + infinitive construction35Personal a393Irregular Verbs (Part I)42Building SentencesQuestions514Irregular Verbs (Part II)58Building SentencesVerb + connector + infinitive construction635Ser and Estar70Building SentencesSentences with direct object pronouns826The Preterit87Building SentencesSentences with indirect objects1037The Imperfect; The Imperfect vs. the Preterit109Building SentencesSentences with double object pronouns1238The Past Participle; The Present Perfect; The Pluperfect128Building SentencesUses of the past participle1379The Imperative144Building SentencesImperative sentences with object pronouns16310The Future and the Conditional; The Future Perfect and the Conditional Perfect168Building SentencesSentences expressing probability17911The Subjunctive (Part I): The Present Subjunctive186Building SentencesCompound and complex sentences20612The Subjunctive (Part II): The Present Perfect Subjunctive; The Imperfect Subjunctive; The Pluperfect Subjunctive210Building SentencesConditional sentences22213Reflexive Verbs227Building SentencesSentences with the reflexive pronoun as indirect object24214The Present Participle; The Progressive Tenses248Building SentencesWord order in Spanish25915Passive Constructions; Reverse Construction Verbs264Building SentencesSe le construction for unplanned occurrences277Answer Key280Index305
